Holiday Project Links

We present artists and performers, nurture local talent, develop creative
activities in our County, foster interest in the cultural heritage of the
community, promote art in education, and attune our business and civic leaders
to our cultural needs and capabilities.

This page fulfills part of that mission with links to amateur
and professional resources in the "real" world. Feel free to
grab the links you need from this site and add them to your own bookmarks
(or save this entire page to a local directory). Please note that these
sites are not part of the All Arts Council on the Web and the AAC has
no control over their content or availability.

Christmas

The ArtMuseums.com
art teacher on the Net site is a USA Today Education Best Bet. They
have global Christmas and other Holiday Celebrations plus a variety of art
project pages. Click on the Merry Christmas Art Projects link.Kids
Domain offers free icons, general Christmas, santa and friends, winter,
and doll and toy icons.
Marketing is a strange beast. I searched
for song lyrics for Christmas carolers holiday parties and discovered the
two most popular sites are run by a business consulting house and by an
entertainment booking agency. Both offer a free assortment of popular lyrics
to enjoy.Heavenly
VoicesTantara
Songbook
Dave Latchaw offers "Uncle
Dave's Xmas Tunes--The Most Beloved Site on the Entire Internet."
Mr. Latchaw does arrangements and programming of such favorites as The
Twelve Days of Christmas,The First Noel, and Walking in a
Winter Wonderland. The site has free downloads and streaming of MIDI
and MP3 intrumentals. This is his fifth jolly year.Classical
Sheet Music is a collection of free classical sheet music to download
and classical midi files for listening. Their 100s of sheet music files
feature the work of more than 70 composers including Bach, Beethoven, Chopin,
Handel, Liszt, Mozart and Pachelbel. The offer excerpts for Gershwin and
Rachmaninoff, easy versions for beginners, and arrangements for a variety
of instruments. There are teaching aids, a discussion board and more.
The Free
Christmas Clipart page of ChristmasDirectory is a large collection of
links to downloadable clipart, desktop themes, backgrounds, wallpaper and
more.A.
Pintura: Art Detective is an online game about art history and composition.
In the game, you play a 1940's noir detective hired by a distraught woman.
Your job is to identify the artist who created a painting she found in her
grandfather's attic. The site is designed for 4th-graders and up. It includes
teaching tools, art concepts and vocabulary, and features Raphael, Titian,
Millet, Van Gogh, and Gauguin.
Australia's Cultural Network
has Christmas related art links. Here you can find links to Botticelli's
Cestello Annunciation, nine nativity paintings, Raphael's Epiphany
and some Australian Christmas images from the National Library of Australia.

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Art makes our memories of
more than just a special occasion. Some of the fun and activities are available
online.
This Thanksgiving art projects site bills
itself as the "largest selection of free
Thanksgiving clip art" online.
The Perpetual
Preschool has gathered Thanksgiving Art/Science projects.
This week's performers can be found at michelechoiniere.com
and leventdunord.com.
Thanksgiving Art makes our memories of more
than just a special occasion. Some of the fun and activities are available
online.Thanksgiving
on the Net, a Celebration of America's First Thanksgiving, offers fun
holiday activities for the entire family. The site has stories of the Pilgrims
and the first Thanksgiving, a holiday puzzle to play, and holiday pictures
for the kids to print and color.
Did you wonder this year where to find the
words and music for Thanksgiving
songs including We Gather Together and Tommy, the Turkey Star?
Rosie's pages for families and kids of all ages include the Rhubarb Review,
Grandpa Tucker's Rhymes and Tales, and, of course, Tommy.
Get in tune with free Thanksgiving music
through the Holiday
Spot with a collection of fast downloading midi files especially for
Thanksgiving. They also have recipes, history, jokes, games, screen savers,
and more. Royalty
Free Clip Art offers free downloads of clip art, web graphics, pictures,
and photos as well as a search engine for other graphics, photos, and art
online.Thanksgiving
on the Net, a Celebration of America's First Thanksgiving, offers
fun holiday activities for the entire family. The site has stories of the
Pilgrims and the first Thanksgiving, a holiday puzzle to play, and holiday
pictures for the kids to print and color.Webshots,
an excite site, has a free gallery of Thanksgiving screen savers, photos,
and computer backgrounds.Thanksgiving
Home offers a collection of midi files music that actually download
fairly quickly from Abide with Me to Your Name.
About.com is often a source of unusual information.
The
basketry portal offers colorized or black and white clip art images,
photographs of horn of plenty cornucopias, and other basketry related graphics
for Thanksgiving. These images are freely available for printable projects
such as place cards, coloring pages, holiday decorations or web pages.
Webshots advertises that it is Where
the World Shares Photos. That means you get to see other people's
vacation slides.
And how could we forget the animated turkeys,
pumpkins, pilgrims and other Thanksgiving art? Click here
for holiday web page decorations.